Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
PLAUTUSIf anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
More Plautus Quotes
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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A man with courage has every blessing.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Ones oldest friend is the best.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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